The Saints on Eucharist Adoration

And behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world. (Saint Matthew Chapter 28:20)
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“I understand that, each time we contemplate with desire and devotion the Host in which is hidden Christ’s Eucharistic Body, we increase our merits in heaven and secure special joys to be ours later in the beatific vision of God.” (St. Gertrude)
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A Holy Hour of prayer before the Blessed Sacrament is so important to Jesus that a multitude of souls go to Heaven who otherwise would have gone to hell. (Jesus revelation to Blessed Dina Belanger)
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“By nocturnal adoration you will obtain from My Heart things which cannot be obtained from Me in any other way, especially the liberation of souls from the influence and oppression of the powers of darkness” -from ‘In Sinu Iesu, The Journal of A Priest.’ 
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“How many among the best Catholics never pay a visit of devotion to the Most Blessed Sacrament to speak with Him from the heart, to tell Him their love!But if in spite of knowing Him and His love and the sacrifices and desires of His Heart, they still do not love Him, what an insult! Yes, an insult! For it amounts to telling Jesus Christ that He is not beautiful enough, not good enough, not lovable enough to be preferred to what they love.” (St. Peter Julian Eymard)
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“If we but paused for a moment to consider attentively what takes place in this Sacrament, I am sure that the thought of Christ’s love for us would transform the coldness of our hearts into a fire of love and gratitude.”
(St. Angela of Foligno)
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“Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.”
(St. Augustine)
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“O Lord, we cannot go to the pool of Siloe to which you sent the blind man. But we have the chalice of Your Precious Blood, filled with life and light. The purer we are, the more we receive.”
(St. Ephraem)
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“What wonderful majesty! What stupendous condescension! O sublime humility! That the Lord of the whole universe, God and the Son of God, should humble Himself like this under the form of a little bread, for our salvation”
“In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.”
(St. Francis of Assisi)
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“A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent in sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.”
(St. Pio)
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“When you want to find me, come near the tabernacle.” 
Padre Pio considered adoration so important that this was the directions he 
gave to his fellow friars if they went looking for him
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“The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host.” 
(Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen)
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“Eucharistic adoration is the greatest of actions. To adore is to share the life of Mary on earth when she adored the Word Incarnate in her virginal womb, when she adored Him in the Crib, on Calvary, in the divine Eucharist.”
(St. Peter Julian Eymard)
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“I have a burning thirst to be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament, and I find hardly anyone who strives, according to My desire, to allay this thirst by making Me some return of love.” 
(Words of Jesus to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque)
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“Trust all things to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and to Mary Help of Christians and you 
will see what miracles are.” 
(St. John Bosco)
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“I am quite sure that if we could but once approach the Most Holy Sacrament with great faith and love, it would suffice to make us rich. How much more so if we approach it often!”
(St. Teresa of Avila)
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“It is our duty to adore the Blessed Sacrament. No one receives the Blessed Sacrament unless he adores it…and not only do we not sin by adoring, we do sin by not adoring.To fall in love with God is the greatest of all romances; to seek Him, the greatest adventure; to find Him, the greatest human achievement.”
(St. Augustine)
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It is said that we will be remembered by the company we keep. St. Thomas recognized this when he said, “The things we love tell us who we are.” Are we to busy to commit to a special specific hour each week with Jesus, who has done everything for us? One thing is for sure – if we faithfully attend Eucharistic Adoration Jesus will recognize and remember us as one of his faithful disciples at our death. St. Thomas use to spend many hours in adoration before our beloved Lord. He once said that he learned more from prayer before the Blessed Sacrament than from many hours of study. “No other sacrament (except the Holy Eucharist) has greater healing power; through it sins are purged away, virtues are increased, and the soul is enriched with an abundance of every spiritual gift.”
(St. Thomas Aquinas)
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“I beg you to show the greatest possible reverence for the Eucharist through whom all things have been brought to peace and reconciled with Almighty God.” One day a rather worldly friend asked St. Francis: “Father what do you do during those long hours before the Blessed Sacrament?” “My son in return I ask you what does the poor man do at the rich man’s door, the sick man in presence of his physician, the thirsty man at a limpid stream? What they do, I do before the Eucharistic God. I pray. I adore. I love. “Let us love God and adore him and offer him praises by day and by night. In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood.”
(St. Francis of Assisi)
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“We must visit Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament a hundred thousand times a day. As mountain hares become white in winter because they neither see nor eat anything but snow, so by adoring and feeding on beauty, purity and goodness itself in the Eucharist you will become altogether beautiful, pure, and good. owhere do we find our Savior more tender or more loving than here (in adoration) where He, so to speak, annihilates Himself and reduces Himself to food in order to penetrate our souls and to unite Himself to the hearts of His friends. By adoring and partaking of His beauty, His Goodness and His purity in this Divine Sacrament, you will become all beautiful, good and pure.”
(St. Francis De Sales)
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Because Jesus loves you infinitely, unlimited is the joy you bring to His Sacred Heart when you come to spend an hour with Him in the Blessed Sacrament. In an apparition to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, Jesus spoke these moving words: “I have a burning thirst to be honored by men in the Blessed Sacrament”.
(St. Margaret Mary Alacoque)
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“Take refuge often at the feet of Jesus…My dear ones, the Visit to the Blessed Sacrament is an extremely necessary way to conquer the devil. Therefore, go often to visit Jesus and the devil will not come out victorious against you.”
(St. John Bosco)
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“Each time you approach the Blessed Sacrament remember that Jesus has been waiting for you for twenty centuries for this personal visit from you.” “If you don’t keep in touch with Christ in prayer and in the bread, how can you make Him known to others?”
(St. Joseph Escriva)
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“Know also that you will probably gain more by praying fifteen minutes before the Blessed Sacrament than by all the other spiritual exercises of the day. True, Our Lord hears our prayers anywhere, for He has made the promise, ‘Ask, and you shall receive,’ but He has revealed to His servants that those who visit Him in the Blessed Sacrament will obtain a more abundant measure of grace.” 
(St. Alphonsus Liguori)
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I am the living Bread that has come down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he shall live forever. 
St. John 6:51-52 
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The bread that I will give is My flesh for the life of the world. 
St. John 6:52
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He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has life everlasting, and I will raise him up on the last day. 
St. John 6:55
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My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 
St. John 6:56
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He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood, abides in Me and I in him. 
St. John 6:57
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And taking bread, he gave thanks, and brake; and gave to them, saying: This is my body, which is given for you.Do this for a commemoration of me. In like manner the chalice also, after he had supped, saying: This is the chalice, the new testament in my blood, which shall be shed for you.
St. Luke 22:19-20
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The chalice of benediction, which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? And the bread, which we break, is it not the partaking of the body of the Lord? For we, being many, are one bread, one body, all that partake of one bread.
1 Corinthians 10:16-17
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For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the same night in which he was betrayed, took bread. And giving thanks, broke, and said: Take ye, and eat: this is my body, which shall be delivered for you: this do for the commemoration of me. In like manner also the chalice, after he had supped, saying: This chalice is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as often as you shall drink, for the commemoration of me. For as often as you shall eat this bread, and drink the chalice, you shall shew the death of the Lord, until he come. Therefore whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and of the blood of the Lord. But let a man prove himself: and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the body of the Lord. Therefore are there many infirm and weak among you, and many sleep.
1 Corinthians 11:23-30

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